Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal announced in a press conference Wednesday evening that Israel "has failed in all its goals" in Operation Defensive Pillar, following the cease fire announcement.

"After eight days, God stayed their hand from the people of Gaza, and they were compelled to submit to the conditions of the resistance," Mashaal said. "Israel has failed in all its goals," he told reporters in a Cairo hotel.

Mashaal also thanked ceasefire mediator Egypt, as well as Iran, which he said "had a role in arming" Hamas during the conflict.

Arabs in Gaza took to the streets to celebrate the start of the truce deal, firing into the air and chanting victory slogans, AFP reported.

The celebrations began shortly after the 9:00 p.m. deadline for the ceasefire to begin, agreed in a deal between Israel and Hamas that was announced in Egypt.

Heavy celebratory gunfire could be heard throughout Gaza, and residents also released fireworks into the night sky, where Israeli drones could still be buzzing heard overhead. .....

Hamas is always celebrating..I remember on 9/11 when they passed out candy in the streets to the kids when the towers fell..these are the vermin we are dealing with..I would have never agreed to a cease fire, especially after they blew up a bus in Tel Aviv..they will just stock pile rockets again, it will never end til every single one of those cockroaches are destroyed

It wouldn’t matter if they killed the terrorists and left one person alive, they would still claim victory. All Israel has to do is wait until Hamas eventually sends another rocket over and then go smash them again.

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posted on 11/21/2012 1:19:11 PM PST
by Blood of Tyrants
(Why is the government more concerned about protecting a microbe on Mars than an unborn baby here?)

Hamas reminds me of the old poem about the signifying Monkey, which I cannot post because of the language. For brave hearts you can google the Signifying Monkey. Some of you will already be familiar with it. "The monkey said to the lion, don't you roar. I'll come down out of this tree and kick your big A$$ some more.

Will Egypt now get their $400 million now for a couple minute peace? My daughter says( reserve volunteer) said the rocket and mortar fire hasn’t stopped from Gazam and that was ten minutes ago so that’s what 2224 Israeli time?

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posted on 11/21/2012 1:34:33 PM PST
by Karliner
( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28, Romans 8:38"...this is the end of the beginning."WC)

Its one of the reasons that Hamas started this all in the first place. And they did with a barrage of 150 rockets, over several days before Israel retaliated. Why would they want to do that? Because Hamass strategic aim right now is to change  is to institutionalize the change in their relations, their power. Two sources of the power. Number one, the weaponry, the new weaponry. They can actually hit Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. They shot a rocket that landed outside of Jerusalem for the first time in 40 years that has happened. So their weaponry is now sophisticated. Its stronger. But they also want to translate the new strategic relation by the change of the neighborhood. Turkey, which is a very strong pro-Israel ally for 60 years is now run by a moderate Islamist, who is extremely anti-Israel. He calls Israel a terrorist state today. Egypt is run by the Brotherhood, which as you know is the mother organization of Hamas, which is simply the Palestinian wing of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. And lastly, the Emir of Qatar dropped in a month ago and he left behind half a billion dollars. So theres are an array of countries. What is Hamas trying to do? It wants to translate the increase in strength to new agreements. Its demands are now for the cease-fire that Israel agrees not to attack again, to allow Hamas to build up its weaponry, and to pledge not to hit any Hamas leaders. And not to hit in the future any Hamas weapons or missiles, which means it would have a truce, it never will have a peace. It will have a truce; its called a hoodna. During which they will become extremely strong, develop hundreds of thousands of rockets that can hit Israel. Can hit Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and put 80 percent of Israel under its rockets. Israel will never agree to that. That is slow suicide. So, as long as Hamas is demanding that the offensive will continue. And if it keeps demanding it, as we heard David Lee Miller report beyond a day or two, there will be a ground invasion.

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posted on 11/21/2012 1:38:03 PM PST
by Lucky9teen
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)

someday they will have to take back that miserable little strip of land, if only to stop the continuous smuggling of deadly weapons designed to kill Israelis

Hillary and Obama have saved the terrorists again, so that ... they will now live to fight another day, meaning (according to the Koran) when they are armed with even more deadly weapons so they can “win” at their murderous aggression

I just got a wiff of the stuff. Darrr. Obama is our saviour. Hurricane Sandy was all Bush’s fault. If only he had signed Kyoto, hurricanes would have stopped happening. That they didn’t is proof that global warming exists. Here, Obama. Redistribute my wealth. I don’t need it. Darrr.

No s@#$. Try driving down the street in Hebron, it’s like a never ending, directionless parade. Chickens, goats, donkeys, toddlers, young married couples, entire families constantly milling about like it’s their living room. And they move out of the way just enough to avoid being hit.

75 to 5 is a ratio that most military folk would consider a victory if the opposing sides had the same amount of troops....but Islam has a billion and Israel has a few million. Its like 300 or 400 to 1.

Israel needs to push everyone out of Gaza because everyone in Gaza is their enemy. .....actually they need to nuke Iran. Once they do that, everything else would be easier since supplies would lessen for the remainder of terroristic Islum.

Netenyahu better learn that time is not on Israel’s side. Every day the enemy gets more technologically advanced and politically stronger.

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